POSIX man pages are now in a separate package.

Other minor updates.
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Michael Kerrisk 2008-06-05 09:52:50 +00:00
parent 0e9f746458
commit 980d08c0d9
2 changed files with 17 additions and 30 deletions

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done
remove:
for i in man?/* man??/*; do \
for i in man?/*; do \
rm -f $(MANDIR)/"$$i" $(MANDIR)/"$$i".gz $(MANDIR)/"$$i".bz2; \
done
gz:
for i in man? man??; do $(GZIP) "$$i"/*; done
for i in man?; do $(GZIP) "$$i"/*; done
bz2:
for i in man? man??; do $(BZIP2) "$$i"/*; done
for i in man?; do $(BZIP2) "$$i"/*; done
# Use with
# make HTDIR=/some/dir HTOPTS=whatever html
@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ html:
done; fi
install:
for i in man? man??; do \
for i in man?; do \
install -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/"$$i" || exit $$?; \
install -m 644 "$$i"/* $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/"$$i" || exit $$?; \
done; \

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@ -8,19 +8,13 @@ the file "Changes".
For further information, visit http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
POSIX
This release contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003 man pages.
The directories man0p, man1p, man3p contain descriptions of the
headers, the utilities, and the functions documented in that standard.
For the copyright notice, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
POSIX PAGES
This package used to contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003
man pages. The POSIX pages are now distributed in the separate
man-pages-posix package.
In order to use this, put in {/usr/share/misc/}man.conf{ig} or so
your favourite order of looking at these pages, for example,
MANSECT 1p:1:8:0p:3p:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:tcl:n:l:p:o
or set the MANSECT environment variable.
OTHER PAGES
The remaining pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages
THE PAGES
These pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages
for Linux. A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands
that are not documented in other packages, and there are a few pages
in sections 5 and 8 for the timezone utilities.
@ -33,10 +27,6 @@ ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.]
Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
Section 0p = POSIX headers
Section 1p = POSIX utilities
Section 3p = POSIX functions
Section 1 = user commands (intro, plus a few other pages)
Section 2 = system calls
Section 3 = libc calls
@ -53,20 +43,17 @@ Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains
several hundred man pages. If you want to write some man pages,
please do so and mail them to mtk.manpages@gmail.com.
or sufggest improvments to existing pages, please visit
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ .
Copyright information:
For the POSIX pages permission to distribute was given by IEEE
and the Open Group, see POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
For the remaining pages, please note that these man pages are
distributed under a variety of copyright licenses. Although these
licenses permit free distribution of the nroff sources contained in
this package, commercial distribution may impose other requirements
(e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or inclusion of the raw nroff
sources with the commercial distribution).
These man pages are distributed under a variety of copyright licenses.
Although these licenses permit free distribution of the nroff sources
contained in this package, commercial distribution may impose other
requirements (e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or inclusion of the
raw nroff sources with the commercial distribution).
If you distribute these man pages commercially, it is your
responsibility to figure out your obligations. (For many man pages,
these obligations require you to distribute nroff sources with any